Danya Ruttenberg

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg is the author of the National Jewish Book Award-winning On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unrepentant World (Beacon), also an American Library Association Sophie Brody Honor Medal winner. She is also the author of Nurture the Wow: Finding Spirituality in the Frustration, Boredom, Tears, Poop, Desperation, Wonder, and Radical Amazement of Parenting (Flatiron), a National Jewish Book Award finalist, and Surprised By God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion (Beacon), which was nominated for the Sami Rohr Prize in Jewish Literature. She writes full-time at LifeIsASacredText dot com. You can find her work on spirituality, justice, and the messy business of being a person there. She was named by Newsweek as one of 10 “rabbis to watch,” as one of 21 “faith leaders to watch” by the Center for American Progress, has been a Washington Post Sunday crossword clue (83 Down) and has been honored with the "Lives of Commitment" award by Auburn Seminary and the "Rabbinic Human Rights Hero Award" by the human rights org T'ruah. She is also editor of The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism (NYU Press) and Yentl's Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism (Seal Press).